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APPENDIX A
List of in-game items: their cost (Ggool) and their effect Park: 0; Happiness +5
Gym: 0.5; Happiness +15, Energy-15
Hospital: 20% min 4G; Health = Max, Happiness Boost, Happiness-25 Hospital: 20% less than 4 G; Health = Max, Happiness = 0
“Don’t click here”: 0; Health-20, Energy-20, Hunger-20, Happiness-20
Cheap Food: 3; Hunger +40
Expensive Food: 5; Hunger+30, Happiness+5 Coffee: 1; Hunger+5, Energy+10
Energy Drink: 1.5; Hunger+5, Energy+15, Happiness-10
Sleep: 0; Energy+2/3 per frame for the duration (replaces decreasing stat) Any class: 4; Ggool+10, Energy-10, Happiness Boost
Percentage of meeting new people in Park and at the Gym: [(1/number of contacts)*190]%
Percentage of gaining a random amount of Ggool from peers at the end of the day: (50+number of contacts)% to gain Ggool from (random number between 1 and number of contacts/2) people
Happiness Boost = Happiness +2/5 per frame for 10 seconds
APPENDIX B
Survey for the playtest of Life with Ggool
APPENDIX C
The prologue of the CSA Graduate Exhibition, November 2020
Not Work and Life Balance, but Research and Life Balance. This exhibition gives you a momentary break in your life from research and a series of choices. Do you remember what decisions have you made so far? Sleeping more in the morning or not? Eating ramen today? Or not? Bogdan provides a complex decision-making network through the Life with Ggool game and the game player will experience Ggool as an alternative currency in the world where Ggool flows, time passes as much as you want. To sit in this chair and play games? Or not? What will you choose? The exhibition continues in Science Cabin #125.
APPENDIX D
User data from the Realms of Playcraft and additional statistics
(Table) Realms of Playcraft user data regarding choices
Race Body Gender Ancestor Augmentation Stats Perks Class Skill Profession
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e s a f m 5743x33 00000010 s h s
e f x f c 5653673 01000000 r r c
h a x f p 7381952 00000010 s e c
o o a h m x2x1219 00100000 w b p
e s a f m 4533x73 00000100 s i n
h s m p n 3956453 01000000 s h s
h a m e p 2225x59 01000000 s e n
h o f f m 11xx535 10000000 w m p
h c x h n 3564773 00000001 r t n
o s m p p 3734x35 00000010 s e p
h a m h n 7076x05 00000010 w m s
o f m f c 70x0x80 00100000 s i c
e s f f c 3438836 01000000 s i c
h a m p n 4754744 10000000 s h c
h f m t n 5555852 00000100 s e c
e s m f p 6264872 00100000 r p p
e f m t m 7576x00 00100001 s e n
h f f f p x0xx005 01000000 w m c
e s m f p 4735556 10000000 s e n
e c f t m 760066x 01000000 w m s
o s a h n 0x16x17 00001100 s h p
o s m t c 8533844 01011111 w m n
o a m e p 8761436 01000100 w m p
h c a e m 8432783 10000000 s i n
h s a f c 3333x3x 00001000 s e c
h f x h m 5223x3x 01000000 s e s
Figure 19. Realms of Playcraft - Class distribution (left) and Skill distribution (right)